Platyloron shaleri Whidborne 1892 (snail)

Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Gosseletinidae

Alternative combination: Pleurotomaria shaleri

Full reference: G. F. Whidborne. 1892. A monograph of the Devonian fauna of the south of England. Volume I - Part IV. The fauna of the limestones of Lummaton, Wolborough, Chircombe Bridge, and Chudleigh. Palaeontographical Society Monograph 45:251-335

Belongs to Platyloron according to P. J. Wagner 2023

See also Whidborne 1892

Sister taxa: Platyloron bischoffii, Platyloron dispar, Platyloron voluta

Ecology: slow-moving epifaunal detritivore

Distribution: found only at Lummaton Quarries, West of St. Mary Church, Lummaton Parrish, Torquay (Devonian of the United Kingdom)

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